§ Mr. SawfordTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what estimate he has made of the number of teachers(a) required and (b) available to meet future demand in respect of science and mathematics in 1999 to 2005. [46843]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisEstimates of the proportion of teachers working in maintained secondary schools who will be qualified in different subjects are produced as part of the Department for Education and Employment's teacher supply and demand modelling process. A summary of the process can be found in "Teacher Supply and Demand Modelling—an explanatory paper" produced in November 1997, copies of which have been placed in the Library; a fuller technical paper explaining the process will be issued by the Department in July.
The assumptions underlying the targets for recruitment to initial teacher training courses that were issued in November 1997 indicate that the numbers of teachers working in maintained secondary schools in England and Wales who would have science and mathematics as the subject of highest qualification would be approximately as set out in the table.
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